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Yohanan bar-Zibhdi
Nov. 16th, 2007 11:59 pmThe Old Testament has plenty of unimaginative literalists who are baffled by even simple metaphor. Well, they're all over the New Testament, too. ( For example... )
Very Naughty Figs
Nov. 11th, 2007 12:43 pmJeremiah 24:1. The Lord shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchadrezzar* king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 24:2. One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 24:3. Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
*"Nebuchadrezzar" is apparently an attempt at transliterating the Chaldean name Nabu-kudurri-usur.
Lebanon like a young unicorn?
Nov. 10th, 2007 03:12 amPsalm 29:5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalm 29:6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.
1 Maccabees 1:11--15
Nov. 7th, 2007 04:52 pmIn those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.
So this device pleased them well.
Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them license to do after the ordinances of the heathen:
Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen:
And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.
